Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-05-27. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
When prepare_peercred() fails in unix_stream_connect(), unix_release_sock() is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked.
Let's move prepare_peercred() before unix_create1().
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May 27, 2026
June 25, 2026
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | Kernel @ 6.18.14 | — | osv |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | 6.12.100-1 ... 6.18~rc7-1~exp1 (103 versions) | 6.18.14-1 | — |
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
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